25.Sep.2010 at 25 | admin
Todd Solondz – Happiness Within
Todd Solondz, the 50 year old filmmaker who made the black comedy ‘Happiness’ in 1998, resides in a village. He has got an apartment with one bedroom. This apartment is however opportune to NYU. He started his full time teaching about a year back in NYU.
He does not find himself suitable enough to be a role-model to anyone who is trying to have a career in films. Pleasure is a complicated idea for Solondz who does not enjoy normal pleasure needs. His latest film, ‘Life During Wartime’, is a continuation of his comical disillusionment. He does not call his a career but a “quasi-career”. Filmmakers often provide their viewers such characters which the viewers find easy to identify with, get sympathized with and, sometimes, condemn to. Solondz does not possess any of these in his films. He calls himself a loser who came out as a winner. That’s the charm of Hollywood, he says.
He makes comic movies which in a way make the viewers feel more uncomfortable. His characters are unassumingly unconventional. They detest rules and establishment at every given opportunity, and sometimes even when they are not given the opportunity to do so. His latest movie is set in primarily Florida and it has a fresh cast to flaunt. The very first shot in the film is shot, he says, exactly the way Happiness was done. It makes the audience feel more confident about the film as if they know what is going to be done next.
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